California Bill Requiring Kindergarten Exempts Early English Testing
Parallel California Assembly (2226) and Senate (1056) Bills have been introduced that would require children to attend one year of kindergarten before enrolling in...
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Constructed Language and Game of Thrones’ Linguistic Lure
Game of Thrones premieres this weekend and this season more and more people will be able to understand the two subtitled fantasy languages of...
The Endangered Language Alliance
The Endangered Language Alliance (ELA), an independent non-profit founded in 2010 by a team of linguists, recently worked with Grubin Productions to produce the...
Arizona Adds Educational Options for Students on Tribal Lands
On April 7th Governor Doug Ducey signed a bill to officially expand Arizona's innovate Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program, offering unprecedented educational options to...
Less Testing May Help Every Child Achieve
After weeks of negotiations, U.S. Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA) have released draft legislation designed to overhaul the Elementary and Secondary...
Emojis and the Language of the Internet
People have been complaining about language being ruined by younger generations for thousands of years. Linguist John McWhorter noted that a Roman scholar in...
French to Stop Fight Against Foreign Words
Fleur Pellerin, France’s minister of culture, reversed four centuries of French linguistic policy by declaring that France’s resistance to the incursion of English words...
Swedish Dictionary Officially Includes Gender-Neutral Pronoun
The Swedish Academy's SAOL dictionary is being republished on April 15, 2015 with thousands of new words. Among them is the gender-neutral pronoun “hen”,...
Bridging the North and South Korean Language Divide
Cheil Worldwide has launched a mobile app called “Univoca: South Korean-North Korean Translator," to help North Korean defectors in South Korea easily communicate in...
Lee Kuan Yew’s Language Legacy
The founding father of modern Singapore, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, passed away on Monday, March 23, 2015 at the age of 91. Leading Singapore...
Preserving Cherokee in the U.S.
The near demise of the Cherokee language came largely thanks to the U.S. government. Most Cherokee were forced to make a brutal march from...
Families of Missing Student-Teachers Tour the U.S.
En route to a demonstration that sought to protest policies that gave urban student-teachers an advantage over rural student-teachers on the job market, 43...
Will You Accept the Indigenous Language Challenge?
In the same vein as the ice-bucket challenge that raised awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a video challenge to raise awareness and fostering...
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